Cognitive Development and Memory
Learning
Brain Parts
Memory
stuff that doesn't fit anywhere else
100
The IQ formula
What is mental age divided by the chronological age multiplied by 100?
100
John Watson is known for teaching baby Albert to ____ his pet rat.
What is fear?
100
Part of your brain that regulates body temperature,sexual behavior, thirst, hunger, fight or flight.
What is hypothalamus?
100
The second stage of memory, can only hold up to 7 or 8 items at a time
What is short term?
100
Maslow's proposal for the order in which we fulfill our needs; the pyramid of human needs suggests once our lower level physiological needs are met, we are prompted to satisfy our higher level needs.
What is What is Hierarchy of Needs (Self-Actualization, Esteem, Love and Belonging, Safety, and Physiological)
200
A vivid clear memory of an emotionally significant moment or event in ones life is called _____.
What is flashbulb?
200
This hemisphere of the brain controls critical thinking, language, and logic.
What is left brain?
200
Hearing or auditory process occurs in this lobe of the brain
What is temporal lobe?
200
In operant conditioning, it is a lack of reinforcement
What is extinction?
200
Part of the peripheral nervous system that prepares the body for action if something alarms or challenges you.
What is Sympathetic?
300
A measure of memory in which you must retrieve information you learned earlier; a fill in the blank test.
What is Recall?
300
This type of reinforcer works because of the biological make-up of a human or animal. For example, if you rewarded a child's behavior with food, they will automatically know the value of the reward.
What is operant conditioning?
300
The structure of the brain that connects and relays messages between the two hemispheres.
What is Corpus Callosum?
300
The mental quality consisting of the ability to learn from experience, solve problems, and use knowledge to adapt to a new situation. The ability to learn and behave adaptively.
What is intelligence?
300
According to Maslow, the need to live up to our fullest and unique potential.
What is Self Actualization?
400
Howard Gardner's theory that there are several different types of intelligence within us.
What is multiple intelligence?
400
In this method of learning, a person or animal learns due to the consequences of their actions.
What is negative reinforcers?
400
The lobe of the brain that has executive functioning such as making decisions, planning, and carrying out actions.
What is frontal lobe?
400
This procedure is a method of teaching complex behaviors with small steps in the "right direction"
What is partial reinforcement
400
This is the lobe of the brain that is responsible for processing visual information received through the eyes.
What is Occipital Lobe?
500
Most people with this skill, psychologist have found, are often unpredictable and spontaneous; can result from the opportunity to experiment.
What is Characteristics of Creativity?
500
In this method of learning, one stimulus calls forth a response that is usually called forth by another stimulus.
What is classical conditioning?
500
Located at the end of a nerve cell and receives messages from other nerve cells
What is dendrites?
500
interference where old learning interferes with the ability to retrieve material learned recently
What is Retrieval?
500
Stretching from the hindbrain through to the midbrain and into the forebrain this system is important in the regulation of attention and alertness.
What is Reticular Activating System?
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